Is all this time occuring while the start up splash screen is displayed? Is this a new problem? Was PhotoLab previously loading more quickly? Does this happen every time you start PhotoLab? Have you tried rebooting your computer? Where are your image files located? If this is the first time you have started PhotoLab? You could also try uninstalling and reinstalling it.
Start up should take no more than around 30 seconds and depending on your hardware and the number and location of the image files, it could take as little as 15 seconds.
It happens in DxO 6 also.
Got a 14900K with 32GB DDR5 Ram - Nvidia 4070 Super. Programm installed on a SSD. Don’t know whats wrong here. Lightroom needs 5 seconds to start on my system…
Does this happen every time you start PhotoLab? → YES
Have you tried rebooting your computer? → More than one Time. Delete the DB. Look in the DB. Check everything…nothing wrong found.
Where are your image files located? → Image File? What you mean exactly?
Possible causes include your antivirus software, failing hardware (check the Windows Event Viewer Application and System logs for warnings), a network or driver problem, or perhaps something out of whack with Windows (run sfc and dism from an administrator shell to find and repair these problems).
How many files are in the folder that you are trying to open? You should never expect to have more than a couple of hundred as PL has to process every one of them on startup.
antivirus software → turned Avast off - no changes
Windows Event Viewer Application → nothing there
driver problem? Which driver? It’s software, no Hardware
run sfc and dism from an administrator shell to find and repair these problems → no. Everything running smooth on my system. No failes from this site. Has nothing todo with Windows 11.
How many files are in the folder that you are trying to open? → Try to open? Got a folder with hundreds of Photos. I try to open just only one if loaded. Thgis should not be the problem.
Just look at the LOG of DxO:
OpenCL processing : ON → Needs 4 Minutes. What is OpenCL ? And why it needs 4 Minutes to initialize?
Database - Info | Profiling DxO.PhotoLab.Database.DOPDB.SaveChanges(…): 0 ms
where drivers are not updated. → comon! seriously? I am far away from such noob mistakes of not updating the drivers. Everything runs top on my system.
I use an old i7 6700K, 32 GB RAM and Saumsung 860 SSD, and I get 20-25 seconds.
Just a shot in the dark: do you have removable USB hard drives connected to your PC? Stuff like WD Elements/My Book units used only for external backup?
Where are the photos you intend to edit? Are they on your internal hard drive, an attached external hard drive or are they on a network drive? How many photos do you have in your average folder?
